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As of 2005, the proportion of Black students at schools with a White majority was at "a level lower than in any year since 1968". [17] Some critics of school desegregation have argued that court-enforced desegregation efforts of the 1960s were either unnecessary or self-defeating, ultimately resulting in White flight from cities
More than a year later, on April 14, 1947, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court's ruling but not on equal protection grounds. It did not challenge the "separate but equal" interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment that had been announced by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C., in 1957. In the United States, school integration (also known as desegregation) is the process of ending race-based segregation within American public and private schools.
Sylvia Mendez when she was 8 years old. Sylvia Mendez (born June 7, 1936) is an American civil rights activist and retired nurse. At age eight, she played an instrumental role in the Mendez v. Westminster case, the landmark desegregation case of 1946.
“These things really did happen.” The first legal victory against U.S. segregation was in San Diego County in 1930, when Mexican American parents successfully sued the Lemon Grove district to ...
Opinion: It's been 70 years since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ordered school desegregation, and whatever gains we've made, we've lost.
Thirty years after the civil rights era, the United States remained a residentially segregated society in which blacks and whites still often inhabited vastly different neighborhoods. [ 117 ] [ 118 ] An article in The Guardian newspaper cited a study from the University of California, Berkeley that "more than 80% of America’s large ...
But by 1974, the case had made its way to the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled in a 5-4 vote that the district and the state could not be ordered to implement a desegregation plan ...